The Mystery of Isabella and the String of Beads

A Woman Doctor in WW1

Katrina Kirkwood (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2016
Loke Press (Verlag)
978-0-9954893-0-1 (ISBN)

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Had the antique scapels really been used by a woman doctor, Isabella Stenhouse, to tend soldiers in WW1? Was it true that the strange string of beads tangled round her stethoscope was a gift from a grateful German prisoner of war? It was time to find out. As featured on the BBC Antiques Roadshow and in national media.

It was the inscription that made the antique scalpels so tantalising: 'Isabella Stenhouse'. A woman doctor? A woman doctor who was rumoured to have served in the First World War? Could Isabella have treated wounded men with these very implements? And had a grateful German prisoner of war really given her the strange string of beads that tangled round her stethoscope? Coaxing clues from archives across Europe, Katrina Kirkwood traces Isabella's route from medical school to the Western Front, Malta and Egypt, discovering as she travels that Dr Stenhouse was not only one of the first women doctors who worked with the British Army - she was also a woman carrying a tragic secret, torn between ambition and loyalty to her family. Isabella's story was selected for the BBC Antiques Roadshow's WW1 centenary edition, and featured by national, international and local media. 'The quiet heroics of a woman on a WW1 battlefield' Daily Express

Katrina Kirkwood, a former medical research scientist with a passion for stories, is Doctor Isabella Stenhouse's granddaughter. Equipped with two science degrees and an art degree, she spent many years helping people in the South Wales valleys turn their stories into mini-films before embarking on her quest to solve the mystery of Isabella and her beads. Following features about Isabella on the BBC Antiques Roadshow, in national newspapers, and on local radio and television, Katrina has been invited to write about Isabella for the magazine of the Medical Women's Federation and for Beyond the Trenches, the blog of the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.08.2016
Zusatzinfo	black & white illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	394 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	0-9954893-0-0 / 0995489300
ISBN-13	978-0-9954893-0-1 / 9780995489301
Zustand	Neuware